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For the history buffs or spooky season enthusiasts, nearby the picnic area is the historic\u003ca href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/calistoga-pioneer-cemetery\"> Pioneer Cemetery\u003c/a>, where early Napa Valley settlers — including survivors of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844011/donner-party-pt-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infamous Donner Party\u003c/a> — are buried.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"SoakinthespectacleofSanFranciscosgardens\">\u003c/a>Find peace in San Francisco’s gardens\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When searching for fall colors, it’ll help to know your trees — and the \u003ca href=\"https://hgic.clemson.edu/the-history-of-the-ginkgo-tree/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ginkgo\u003c/a> is one of the key species that’s near-guaranteed to turn a brilliant yellow each fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for San Franciscans looking for a tranquil picnic spot, the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/japanese-tea-garden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japanese Tea Garden\u003c/a> is full of ginkgos on display — and it’s even free for city residents to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them are starting to turn a little bit yellow now, and they will peak usually close to Thanksgiving,” garden supervisor Steven Pitsenbarger said. Gingkos can continue their colorful displays into December and “even into early January,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056797\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/holt_901_516-scaled-e1758300905811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1406\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn in Japanese Tea Garden in Gardens of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Saxon Holt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A hotter summer and a colder winter will make more dramatic colors,” Pitsenbarger said — but although the Bay Area’s more temperate seasonal shifts can mean less dramatic fall changes than you’d see elsewhere, “even so, we still will always have some color,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true, too, for the maples in the garden, many of which were planted this year \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">along a new pathway\u003c/a>, and will turn colors ranging from yellow to orange to red — and even deep purple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few steps away is the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/san-francisco-botanical-garden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Botanical Garden\u003c/a>, whose Temperate Asia area and Moon Viewing Garden boast cherry, beech and alder trees, among other autumn staples, said Brendan Lange, spokesperson for Gardens of Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Moon-View-e1758300999218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1265\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Platform viewing deck over pond in Moon Viewing Garden in San Francisco Botanical Garden with fall foliage color in Japanese Maple trees. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Saxon Holt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers: \u003c/em>The Botanical Garden is the perfect place to sit with a picnic, with its wealth of nooks and crannies — or you could spread out on the Great Meadow near the garden’s eastern entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you can’t bring your own food into the Japanese Tea Garden, there is a tea house inside where you can enjoy a warm beverage and light snacks while taking in the view. Despite being just 4 acres, the garden can get quite crowded, but Pitsenbarger said they have regulars who come every week who “notice all the subtle changes that happen throughout the year.” Meanwhile, other visitors will arrive, ”find a spot in the garden and hang out, and just watch and see how the earth turns around them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the better ways to experience the garden is to sit and kind of absorb things,” Pitsenbarger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"TakethescenicrouteinSonomaCounty\">\u003c/a>Go for a scenic stroll in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Ayers, Sonoma County Regional Parks spokesperson Sarah Campbell was sure to manage the expectations of visitors who might be hoping to find East Coast-like fall colors in Sonoma County. “What people have in mind isn’t necessarily what you’ll find,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But casual walkers or bikers can still find fall vibes on the \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/visit/find-a-park/west-county-regional-trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West County Regional Trail\u003c/a>, a 5-mile paved wheelchair and stroller-accessible walkway that takes you the scenic route over wetlands, by farms and vineyards, and spits you out in the charming small town of Sebastopol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is full of gems, from Florence Avenue’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/backroads/junk-art-of-sebastopol/103-2fe9c24b-bcc7-4bb8-a7fd-72da00162e15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Junk Art”\u003c/a> and countless antique and craft boutiques downtown to \u003ca href=\"https://thebarlow.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 12-acre outdoor artists’ and artisans’ marketplace\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Shiloh-Ranch-Big-Leaf-Maple-Trail-scaled-e1758301114292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shiloh Ranch Big Leaf Maple Trail in Sonoma County, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Sonoma County Regional Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rest of Sonoma County boasts a number of \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/learn/blog/perfect-sonoma-county-fall-hikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fall-friendly hiking areas\u003c/a>, Campbell said, including the Big Leaf Trail at \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/visit/find-a-park/shiloh-ranch-regional-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shiloh Ranch Regional Park\u003c/a> — be prepared, this one is “rugged,” she said. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/visit/find-a-park/riverfront-regional-park\">Riverfront Regional Park\u003c/a>, with views of the Russian River and several small lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers: \u003c/em>While the Gravenstein Apple Fair, featuring the world-famous Sonoma native fruit, is behind us, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sebastopolfarmersmarket.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Sebastopol farmers market runs all year long on Sundays\u003c/a> and will easily fill your picnic basket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you’ve got the goods, you can head to \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/visit/find-a-park/ragle-ranch-regional-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ragle Ranch Regional Park\u003c/a> to enjoy your meal, and maybe even catch a glimpse of wildlife along Atascadero Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"GetlostinLivermoressycamoregroves\">\u003c/a>Soak in the big leaves at Sycamore Grove Park in Livermore\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For stunning — and colorful — sycamore trees, look no further than Livermore in Alameda County, where they’re abundant at \u003ca href=\"https://www.larpd.org/sycamore-grove-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sycamore Grove Park. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sycamore trees “have a wide range on their bigger leaves, so it goes from yellow to orange-ish, almost a little red,” said park ranger and field supervisor Seth Eddings from Livermore Area Recreation and Park District’s Open Space team. “Not too much red, but a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the trees that are abundant at Sycamore. The sweeping grasslands are a sight to behold, Eddings said, as is the wildlife — the park’s nature area has a wealth of wild animals, from bobcats and badgers to owls and mountain lions. And even, if you’re lucky, “if river otters: “My theory is if you see a river otter, they let you see them,” he said. “They’re very elusive animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddings will host a free ranger talk on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.larpd.org/2025-09-27-ranger-program-cats-of-sycamore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wild cats of Sycamore\u003c/a> at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers: \u003c/em>The park offers two picnic areas on either side of the park — one off Wetmore Road and the other off Arroyo Road. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.larpd.org/picnic-rentals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger sites near the ranger station can even be reserved\u003c/a> for bigger private events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop in downtown Livermore on your way for a spread of lunch options, or detour to locals’ favorite \u003ca href=\"https://places.singleplatform.com/ofelias-kitchen/menu?ref=google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ofelia’s Kitchen\u003c/a> for true cafe staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"FurtherafieldExplorenewcornersofSantaCruzCounty\">\u003c/a>Further afield: Grab some grub in Santa Cruz County’s Aptos\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forest of Nisene Marks State Park\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz County is best known for its evergreen redwoods. But it also follows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/nrca_glca_2021_riparian.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">riparian \u003c/a>corridor that features the big leaf maple, as well as sycamore, box elders, willows and cottonwoods, “that all have some great fall color,” said Sarah Shea, parks superintendent for Santa Cruz County Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park’s trails reach all the way south to the town of Aptos, whose \u003ca href=\"https://parks.santacruzcountyca.gov/Home/ExploreOurParksBeaches/AllCountyParks/AptosVillageCountyPark.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Village Park\u003c/a>, Shea said, is a great spot to catch the fall colors and sit down with your picnic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056786 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/AptosVillage-DeviPridePhotography079-scaled-e1758300501457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A girl explores the forest floor at Aptos Village in Santa Cruz County. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Devi Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a full-day scenic journey, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/maple-falls-via-the-bridge-creek-trail-and-aptos-creek-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">venture up Maple Falls,\u003c/a> a 7–8 mile hike that takes you over creeks (and former creeks, where you can see \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruz.org/blog/spotlight-on-parks-forest-of-nisene-marks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fossilized seashells\u003c/a>), through dense redwoods and fern forests and all the way up to a 30-foot waterfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers:\u003c/em> Within walking distance of the Aptos’ downtown area, the Aptos Village County Park is a great option for lunch, Shea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just down below the village, and so there’s lots of opportunities to grab a picnic and then head down to the park,” she said. If you want some local grub, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.deluxefoodsofaptos.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deluxe Foods\u003c/a> or any of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thepalmdeliaptos/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handful\u003c/a> of delis in the area for top-tier to-go eats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly: Don’t forget to stop at \u003ca href=\"https://mariannesicecream.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marianne’s Ice Cream\u003c/a> on the way out to taste iconic fall flavors like pumpkin and maple nut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we’ve since done the work for you on this one on \u003cem>where \u003c/em>to go — keep reading for five ideas for the ideal autumn gathering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#CruisealongtheSilveradoTrail\">Cruise along the Silverado Trail\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#SoakinthespectacleofSanFranciscosgardens\">Soak in the spectacle of San Francisco’s gardens\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#TakethescenicrouteinSonomaCounty\">Take the scenic route in Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#GetlostinLivermoressycamoregroves\">Get lost in Livermore’s sycamore groves\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#FurtherafieldExplorenewcornersofSantaCruzCounty\">Further afield: Explore new corners of Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"CruisealongtheSilveradoTrail\">\u003c/a>Explore Napa’s Silverado Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Folks call us every fall asking: ‘Where can we hike and \u003ca href=\"https://www.visit-vermont.com/state/foliage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find Vermont\u003c/a>?’” said Ryan Ayers, who works in community relations and outreach for Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality is that “most of the native plants we have are not good for color change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056790\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Moore-Creek-Park-Conn-Peak-Trail-Sunset-scaled-e1758300678271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets on Conn Peak trail in Napa’s Moore Creek park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Napa Open Space District)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there \u003cem>is \u003c/em>one iconic Bay Area plant that does create a spectacular rainbow of fall colors, Ayers said: The grapevines that make up the region’s iconic vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the best view of the changing colorscape, take a drive up \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/experience/napa-valleys-silverado-trail/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa’s Silverado Trail\u003c/a>, the affectionate nickname for the road running parallel to Highway 29 from San Francisco to Calistoga, and pass winery after winery blanketing the hills. The 29-mile scenic road winds through the valley, passing by some of the most famous wineries in the world.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you’re looking for a hike amid the foliage, Ayers suggested heading to Moore Creek Park for a \u003ca href=\"https://napaoutdoors.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Moore-Creek-Hennessey-brochure-Nov-18-2021-COLOR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jaunt along the Moore Creek Trail\u003c/a> — and, if you’re feeling extra ambitious, all the way to a “top secret swimming hole,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a bad walk anywhere in there,” Ayers said of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers: \u003c/em>Stop on the way and grab upscale to-go fare at \u003ca href=\"https://www.stationsh.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Station St. Helena\u003c/a>, or a full deli sandwich at \u003ca href=\"https://www.giugnis.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giugnis\u003c/a>, a Saint Helena staple that’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.giugnis.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open since 1911. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Ayers suggested heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bothe-Napa Valley State Park\u003c/a>, where you’ll find a spacious picnic area where you can enjoy your meal. For the history buffs or spooky season enthusiasts, nearby the picnic area is the historic\u003ca href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/calistoga-pioneer-cemetery\"> Pioneer Cemetery\u003c/a>, where early Napa Valley settlers — including survivors of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844011/donner-party-pt-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infamous Donner Party\u003c/a> — are buried.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"SoakinthespectacleofSanFranciscosgardens\">\u003c/a>Find peace in San Francisco’s gardens\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When searching for fall colors, it’ll help to know your trees — and the \u003ca href=\"https://hgic.clemson.edu/the-history-of-the-ginkgo-tree/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ginkgo\u003c/a> is one of the key species that’s near-guaranteed to turn a brilliant yellow each fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily for San Franciscans looking for a tranquil picnic spot, the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/japanese-tea-garden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japanese Tea Garden\u003c/a> is full of ginkgos on display — and it’s even free for city residents to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them are starting to turn a little bit yellow now, and they will peak usually close to Thanksgiving,” garden supervisor Steven Pitsenbarger said. Gingkos can continue their colorful displays into December and “even into early January,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056797\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/holt_901_516-scaled-e1758300905811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1406\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn in Japanese Tea Garden in Gardens of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Saxon Holt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A hotter summer and a colder winter will make more dramatic colors,” Pitsenbarger said — but although the Bay Area’s more temperate seasonal shifts can mean less dramatic fall changes than you’d see elsewhere, “even so, we still will always have some color,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true, too, for the maples in the garden, many of which were planted this year \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">along a new pathway\u003c/a>, and will turn colors ranging from yellow to orange to red — and even deep purple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few steps away is the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/san-francisco-botanical-garden/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Botanical Garden\u003c/a>, whose Temperate Asia area and Moon Viewing Garden boast cherry, beech and alder trees, among other autumn staples, said Brendan Lange, spokesperson for Gardens of Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Moon-View-e1758300999218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1265\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Platform viewing deck over pond in Moon Viewing Garden in San Francisco Botanical Garden with fall foliage color in Japanese Maple trees. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Saxon Holt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers: \u003c/em>The Botanical Garden is the perfect place to sit with a picnic, with its wealth of nooks and crannies — or you could spread out on the Great Meadow near the garden’s eastern entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you can’t bring your own food into the Japanese Tea Garden, there is a tea house inside where you can enjoy a warm beverage and light snacks while taking in the view. Despite being just 4 acres, the garden can get quite crowded, but Pitsenbarger said they have regulars who come every week who “notice all the subtle changes that happen throughout the year.” Meanwhile, other visitors will arrive, ”find a spot in the garden and hang out, and just watch and see how the earth turns around them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the better ways to experience the garden is to sit and kind of absorb things,” Pitsenbarger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"TakethescenicrouteinSonomaCounty\">\u003c/a>Go for a scenic stroll in Sonoma County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Ayers, Sonoma County Regional Parks spokesperson Sarah Campbell was sure to manage the expectations of visitors who might be hoping to find East Coast-like fall colors in Sonoma County. “What people have in mind isn’t necessarily what you’ll find,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But casual walkers or bikers can still find fall vibes on the \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/visit/find-a-park/west-county-regional-trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West County Regional Trail\u003c/a>, a 5-mile paved wheelchair and stroller-accessible walkway that takes you the scenic route over wetlands, by farms and vineyards, and spits you out in the charming small town of Sebastopol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is full of gems, from Florence Avenue’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/backroads/junk-art-of-sebastopol/103-2fe9c24b-bcc7-4bb8-a7fd-72da00162e15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Junk Art”\u003c/a> and countless antique and craft boutiques downtown to \u003ca href=\"https://thebarlow.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 12-acre outdoor artists’ and artisans’ marketplace\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Shiloh-Ranch-Big-Leaf-Maple-Trail-scaled-e1758301114292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shiloh Ranch Big Leaf Maple Trail in Sonoma County, California. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Sonoma County Regional Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rest of Sonoma County boasts a number of \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/learn/blog/perfect-sonoma-county-fall-hikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fall-friendly hiking areas\u003c/a>, Campbell said, including the Big Leaf Trail at \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/visit/find-a-park/shiloh-ranch-regional-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shiloh Ranch Regional Park\u003c/a> — be prepared, this one is “rugged,” she said. There’s also \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/visit/find-a-park/riverfront-regional-park\">Riverfront Regional Park\u003c/a>, with views of the Russian River and several small lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers: \u003c/em>While the Gravenstein Apple Fair, featuring the world-famous Sonoma native fruit, is behind us, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sebastopolfarmersmarket.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Sebastopol farmers market runs all year long on Sundays\u003c/a> and will easily fill your picnic basket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you’ve got the goods, you can head to \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sonomacounty.ca.gov/visit/find-a-park/ragle-ranch-regional-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ragle Ranch Regional Park\u003c/a> to enjoy your meal, and maybe even catch a glimpse of wildlife along Atascadero Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"GetlostinLivermoressycamoregroves\">\u003c/a>Soak in the big leaves at Sycamore Grove Park in Livermore\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For stunning — and colorful — sycamore trees, look no further than Livermore in Alameda County, where they’re abundant at \u003ca href=\"https://www.larpd.org/sycamore-grove-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sycamore Grove Park. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sycamore trees “have a wide range on their bigger leaves, so it goes from yellow to orange-ish, almost a little red,” said park ranger and field supervisor Seth Eddings from Livermore Area Recreation and Park District’s Open Space team. “Not too much red, but a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the trees that are abundant at Sycamore. The sweeping grasslands are a sight to behold, Eddings said, as is the wildlife — the park’s nature area has a wealth of wild animals, from bobcats and badgers to owls and mountain lions. And even, if you’re lucky, “if river otters: “My theory is if you see a river otter, they let you see them,” he said. “They’re very elusive animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddings will host a free ranger talk on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.larpd.org/2025-09-27-ranger-program-cats-of-sycamore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wild cats of Sycamore\u003c/a> at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers: \u003c/em>The park offers two picnic areas on either side of the park — one off Wetmore Road and the other off Arroyo Road. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.larpd.org/picnic-rentals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger sites near the ranger station can even be reserved\u003c/a> for bigger private events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop in downtown Livermore on your way for a spread of lunch options, or detour to locals’ favorite \u003ca href=\"https://places.singleplatform.com/ofelias-kitchen/menu?ref=google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ofelia’s Kitchen\u003c/a> for true cafe staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"FurtherafieldExplorenewcornersofSantaCruzCounty\">\u003c/a>Further afield: Grab some grub in Santa Cruz County’s Aptos\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forest of Nisene Marks State Park\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz County is best known for its evergreen redwoods. But it also follows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/nrca_glca_2021_riparian.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">riparian \u003c/a>corridor that features the big leaf maple, as well as sycamore, box elders, willows and cottonwoods, “that all have some great fall color,” said Sarah Shea, parks superintendent for Santa Cruz County Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park’s trails reach all the way south to the town of Aptos, whose \u003ca href=\"https://parks.santacruzcountyca.gov/Home/ExploreOurParksBeaches/AllCountyParks/AptosVillageCountyPark.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Village Park\u003c/a>, Shea said, is a great spot to catch the fall colors and sit down with your picnic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056786 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/AptosVillage-DeviPridePhotography079-scaled-e1758300501457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A girl explores the forest floor at Aptos Village in Santa Cruz County. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Devi Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a full-day scenic journey, you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/maple-falls-via-the-bridge-creek-trail-and-aptos-creek-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">venture up Maple Falls,\u003c/a> a 7–8 mile hike that takes you over creeks (and former creeks, where you can see \u003ca href=\"https://www.santacruz.org/blog/spotlight-on-parks-forest-of-nisene-marks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fossilized seashells\u003c/a>), through dense redwoods and fern forests and all the way up to a 30-foot waterfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Picnicking pointers:\u003c/em> Within walking distance of the Aptos’ downtown area, the Aptos Village County Park is a great option for lunch, Shea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just down below the village, and so there’s lots of opportunities to grab a picnic and then head down to the park,” she said. If you want some local grub, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.deluxefoodsofaptos.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deluxe Foods\u003c/a> or any of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thepalmdeliaptos/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handful\u003c/a> of delis in the area for top-tier to-go eats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly: Don’t forget to stop at \u003ca href=\"https://mariannesicecream.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marianne’s Ice Cream\u003c/a> on the way out to taste iconic fall flavors like pumpkin and maple nut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, Ericka is joined by The Bay’s senior editor Alan Montecillo and KQED associate arts and culture editor Nastia Voynovskaya. We talk about the Pickett Fire currently burning in Napa, scheduling and payment changes to public transit across the Bay, and why some local artists have decided to take their music off Spotify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1460162369&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/8/21/pickett-fire\">Pickett Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/napa/pickett-fire-napa-cause-woodbridge/\">Did ‘escaped control burn’ cause Napa County’s Pickett Fire? Dispatch records raise questions about blaze’s origin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052690/bart-fares-2025-credit-card-clipper-tap-and-ride-contactless\">Starting This Week, You Can Tap Onto BART With a Credit Card — Here’s How\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978141/deerhoof-quits-spotify-daniel-ek-700-million-military-ai-investment\">SF Band Ditches Spotify Over CEO’s $700M Military AI Investment\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2025/news20250811\">Bay Area transit’s latest Big Sync improves transfers, saving riders up to 20 minutes per trip\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:02] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. And welcome to our August news roundup where we talk about some of the other stories that The Bay team and today a special guest have been following this month. I’m joined by senior editor, Alan Montecillo. What’s up, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:21] Hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:22] And our very special guest today is Nastia Vojnovskaya, associate editor of arts and culture for KQED. Hey Nastia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:00:29] Hi Ericka!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:30] Thank you so much for joining us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:00:32] Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:35] Before we dig into the stories that we’ve been following, Nastia, we wanted to have you on because it’s been a pretty busy August for you and the Arts Desk. Can you tell us a little bit about all the things you’ve been covering this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:00:49] It’s music festival season and full swing in the Bay Area. So earlier this month, I had the pleasure of covering Outside Lands. Um, I cover it every year. And this was a particularly good one where had I not been covering, I would have definitely wanted to be there for fun. Super standout performance by Doechii, who was not even a headliner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] Wow. I was just going to ask what were your favorite sets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] She already had been at the top of my list of artists I’m watching, just based on her super strong album from last year, Alligator Bites Never Heal. And she just really showed everyone what showmanship and what being a performer is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:01:52] She can rap with the dexterity of Kendrick Lamar while moving like Megan Thee Stallion with no backing track. And then the whole performance was also formatted with this cheeky classroom lesson theme about hip hop. There were also so many homages to who came before and where she came from while creating this super futuristic vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] August was kind of the month of music festivals or concerts in Golden Gate Park, right? There was Denton Company, Outside Lands, Zach Bryan. With Outside Lands how did it compare to previous years? And I mean, how do you know as an attendee and as someone covering it, whether it was like a big success compared to years past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:02:35] I would say this year they did some very, very savvy booking. So in addition to Doechii, they had Doja Cat and also Tyler, The Creator. Tyler, he had played Outside Lands before, so when they announced it back in April, I was like, okay, I’m excited to see him again. I like him. But shortly before the festival, he released a fantastic new album. And it’s called Don’t Tap the Glass and the whole theme of that album is being present for the music in person and not being on your phone. And you kind of saw that translate in the crowd the way that people were so engaged. There were some really smart choices of well-positioned breakout acts that they booked. There’s this Brooklyn indie band whose name unfortunately we cannot say on the Radio, and it’s spelled F-C-U-K-E-R-S. And they played this smaller side stage earlier in the day. And I was so impressed by just how they packed out that stage with teens and 20-somethings who were just in this very dense crowd jumping up and down. They kind of have this indie sleaze vibe with electronics and live instruments and just like very sassy vocals. It’s very children of brat. And that band actually had a super packed high energy show, The Rickshaw Stop the night before. So I was just very impressed by how the festival had this mix of established and breaking acts that I think are about to be a lot bigger soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:05] I know LaRussell also performed at Outside Lands, and we also did a really amazing event with him this month as well. More on that on the show next month, actually. We did a real cool music showcase with LaRussall and the Good Company team. Really got to see some amazing artists locally, and we’re gonna do an interview with the winner next month. So look out for that, listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] I have a confession to make. I live next to the park. I have lived next to park for several years and I haven’t been to outside lands yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:04:41] But at least you can hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:43] I can hear it, I can definitely hear it. Some of my neighbors don’t love the fact that they can hear it, but I don’t mind. I should go and I will go. It’s expensive, but from what I hear, it’s worth it. I will get around to it, but I’m always a little embarrassed whenever this comes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:59] Very clutch parking spot in front of his house, if you’re an outside lens attendee. Not that I’m offering it to our listeners. Well we’re gonna take a quick break and when we come back we’re going to dig into all the stories that we have been following this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] Let’s go ahead and dive into some of the other stories that we have been following this month. Alan, I wanna start with you and you’ve been following the Pickett Fire in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:38] Yes, after a cold summer, a robust marine layer, Karl the Fog, out in full force, we are essentially in peak fire season from now until winter, basically, when it starts raining. And over the last week, we’ve had what has been the largest fire in the Bay Area so far, which is the Pickett fire. As of this taping, so Thursday morning, it has burned about 6,800 acres and is about 33% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:07] Yeah, and obviously whenever it comes to fire in the Bay Area, I think one of the main ways folks experience it is air quality, and I’ve been really watching that very closely. 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It seems like the main damage that’s been done, apart from smoke that can be hazardous to people’s health, is to crops. As Ericka mentioned, it is harvest season for these wineries. One early estimate from the county ag commissioner says approximately 1,500 acres of crops have been affected either by fire, by heat, or by smoke. Totaling and estimated, and again this is preliminary, about $65 million in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] Oh, wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] And what that means in a practical sense is, are wine grapes going to get ruined by the fire? This happened in 2020. And so the question just is, could that happen again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:07:50] Do you know how the wine industry has been adapting to that, if at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] Winemakers say, you know, over the last decade or so, the industry is trying to push for more research to figure out how to reduce the taste of smoke and minimize the effects of wildfire because you know it’s hard to tell immediately if the smoke has ruined your grapes. You won’t really know until you taste it. And there actually isn’t a ton of research yet on how to at least mitigate that. So maybe you do have smoke in your area because fire is a reality in California, but maybe there’s ways to minimize the taste and save the crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:08:23] And I know it usually takes a while to figure out how a fire actually started, but do we know anything about how this fire in Napa began?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:33] So that is still under investigation. We don’t know for sure. But there have been some questions and details trickling out, and reporters asking whether this fire started as the result of a “escaped control burn”, basically a fire that’s intended to reduce vegetation on a property. The Press Democrat noted that those words, escape control, burn, appeared on a Cal Fire public safety dispatch around the same time the fire was reported. For what it’s worth, the winery in question said through a spokesperson, you know, we’re working with fire investigators. This is premature. So nothing has been confirmed officially yet, but there are some worries that this could have been how the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] Well, Alan, thank you so much for sharing that story with us. We’re going to be following that one in the weeks ahead, I’m sure. Moving on to the story that I have been following this month, Nastia, Alan, you’re both public transit writers in the Bay Area, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:09:39] Yes, I took BART here this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:42] I’m a regular N rider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:44] Nice and of course I’m a regular ferry rider and this might be of interest to all of us in this room. Some big changes have been happening to public transit in the Bay Area that is really all about making transit easier to ride. Not sure if you all have started using your debit or credit cards to ride BART but that is now a thing that you can do. And there’s also something called the Big Sync that is happening. Basically, all these transit systems in the Bay Area coordinating to make transfers a lot easier if you’re using one or more transit system. It’s about time. Right. I remember going to New York a couple of years ago and being able to ride the subway by just tapping my credit card. And as a tourist. I was amazed. I was mind blown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:10:43] Yeah, when they got rid of paper tickets and introduced clipper cards, I honestly always found it really problematic that if you lose your clipper card, you have to spend three dollars or something to get a new plastic card. And if you’re a low-income rider, you know that’s money you could be using for a meal. So I’m glad that they’re changing the way it’s done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Well, and it also brings BART closer to transit systems that already have this. You mentioned this already. New York has it. Chicago has it, many places overseas have it already. Sadly, for those of us who travel among multiple transit agencies, so let’s say you’re going BART to Muni like you do, it hasn’t come to Muni yet, right? You’ll still tap your credit card for BART and then use something else for Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:25] Yeah, fumble to find your other plastic card to ride Muni. Yes, that is correct. This open payment system, as it’s called, of using a debit card or a credit card has not rolled out for Muni yet, but that kind of is the goal. Bay Area Transit officials say that they do want to use this eventually for all regional operators, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit. So TBD for you, Alan. But I will say there is still something for Muni writers in the month of August, which is this big sink that I’m talking about. Have any of you heard of that? No, tell us more. So if you’re using more than one transit system, so you’re going from BART to Muni, all these agencies have tried to overhaul their schedules in order to make transfers a lot easier and a lot faster. So the focus is really for transfer hubs. In the Bay Area, so Dublin Pleasanton, BART, Daly City BART, Palo Alto Caltrain, and Concord BART Station. In all, these agencies adjusted 18 bus routes at these four hubs to improve connection times with each other. No more sprinting from Caltrain to BART for example. These agencies are saying that these changes account for a 33% increase in weekday ideal transfers. So basically you get five to 10 minutes in between one transit system to another to calmly start your morning and walk to your next transfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:13:08] That’s gonna make a big difference for a lot of people, because I talk to so many people that want to ride public transit more, but oftentimes it just takes so much longer than driving or getting a rideshare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:19] Right, exactly. You know, these agencies, these transportation agencies that have been really struggling since the pandemic, they got a lot of work to do to get people back on busses and trains, right? And this is really part of it. In terms of the why, this is part of an ongoing implementation of what’s known as the Bay Area Transformation Action Plan from 2021, which is all about improving public transit, making it more user-friendly. And creating a more connected system among all these different transit agencies around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:13:54] Love to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:13:55] See you on the N, or the 22…maybe I shouldn’t give out —\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:58] Yeah you’re right. We’re just getting closer and closer to figuring out where Alan Montecillo lives in this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:15] Well, that is the story that I have been following. Nastia, we’re gonna wrap this one up with you. What story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:14:24] I’ve been following the story of cultural boycotts. So in late July, a bunch of artists announced that they’re taking their music off Spotify because the CEO, Daniel Ek actually just became the chairman of an AI weapons company called Helsing. In light of Israel’s war in Gaza, a lot of artists have been thinking in past couple of years, how… Cultural institutions and companies that serve the culture sector can be complicit in war profiteering. Gabe Moline from KQED Arts wrote a great piece about how Dear Hoof, which is an indie band that formed in San Francisco and are pretty big, announced taking their music off Spotify. And another big voice in that has been Kadia Bonet, who’s this great singer-songwriter, also from the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:15:19] How much of a financial hit would artists take for deciding to pull their music off something like Spotify, which obviously is huge, you know, so many people use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:15:28] Well, just based off streams, honestly, negligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:15:32] Because they don’t get paid that much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:32] They do not. They do not get paid much at all. I’ve actually been covering artists’ fight for better pay on streaming services for a few years now. And Spotify doesn’t release its exact figures of how much it pays, but the general estimate going around in the industry is that they get a third of a cent per stream. 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Boiler Room, for those that don’t know, it’s this huge online platform for DJs and they basically go to all these really cool music scenes from around the world and produce these really high quality videos of DJs killing it at parties that really puts you in the scene. So in previous years, being in BoilerRoom for a DJ was a stamp of approval. So it was a really big deal that all these smaller electronic music collectives that I’m sure would want the clout that comes with Boiler Room put their foot down and they pretty much organized an anti-Boiler Room music festival as a sign of protest because Boiler Rooms parent company, KKR, has weapons investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:44] Has Spotify said anything about this? Are they noticing that there are some artists who are upset, whether it’s about their CEO specifically or payment in general?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:17:54] So Spotify has not issued a public statement about its CEO becoming chairman of the AI weapons company, but it does have a lot of information on its website kind of arguing that it does give artists all these opportunities and that artists wouldn’t be making a certain amount of money if it wasn’t for Spotify. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:02] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. And welcome to our August news roundup where we talk about some of the other stories that The Bay team and today a special guest have been following this month. I’m joined by senior editor, Alan Montecillo. What’s up, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:21] Hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:22] And our very special guest today is Nastia Vojnovskaya, associate editor of arts and culture for KQED. Hey Nastia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:00:29] Hi Ericka!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:30] Thank you so much for joining us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:00:32] Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:35] Before we dig into the stories that we’ve been following, Nastia, we wanted to have you on because it’s been a pretty busy August for you and the Arts Desk. Can you tell us a little bit about all the things you’ve been covering this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:00:49] It’s music festival season and full swing in the Bay Area. So earlier this month, I had the pleasure of covering Outside Lands. Um, I cover it every year. And this was a particularly good one where had I not been covering, I would have definitely wanted to be there for fun. Super standout performance by Doechii, who was not even a headliner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] Wow. I was just going to ask what were your favorite sets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:01:25] She already had been at the top of my list of artists I’m watching, just based on her super strong album from last year, Alligator Bites Never Heal. And she just really showed everyone what showmanship and what being a performer is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:01:52] She can rap with the dexterity of Kendrick Lamar while moving like Megan Thee Stallion with no backing track. And then the whole performance was also formatted with this cheeky classroom lesson theme about hip hop. There were also so many homages to who came before and where she came from while creating this super futuristic vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] August was kind of the month of music festivals or concerts in Golden Gate Park, right? There was Denton Company, Outside Lands, Zach Bryan. With Outside Lands how did it compare to previous years? And I mean, how do you know as an attendee and as someone covering it, whether it was like a big success compared to years past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:02:35] I would say this year they did some very, very savvy booking. So in addition to Doechii, they had Doja Cat and also Tyler, The Creator. Tyler, he had played Outside Lands before, so when they announced it back in April, I was like, okay, I’m excited to see him again. I like him. But shortly before the festival, he released a fantastic new album. And it’s called Don’t Tap the Glass and the whole theme of that album is being present for the music in person and not being on your phone. And you kind of saw that translate in the crowd the way that people were so engaged. There were some really smart choices of well-positioned breakout acts that they booked. There’s this Brooklyn indie band whose name unfortunately we cannot say on the Radio, and it’s spelled F-C-U-K-E-R-S. And they played this smaller side stage earlier in the day. And I was so impressed by just how they packed out that stage with teens and 20-somethings who were just in this very dense crowd jumping up and down. They kind of have this indie sleaze vibe with electronics and live instruments and just like very sassy vocals. It’s very children of brat. And that band actually had a super packed high energy show, The Rickshaw Stop the night before. So I was just very impressed by how the festival had this mix of established and breaking acts that I think are about to be a lot bigger soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:05] I know LaRussell also performed at Outside Lands, and we also did a really amazing event with him this month as well. More on that on the show next month, actually. We did a real cool music showcase with LaRussall and the Good Company team. Really got to see some amazing artists locally, and we’re gonna do an interview with the winner next month. So look out for that, listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:34] I have a confession to make. I live next to the park. I have lived next to park for several years and I haven’t been to outside lands yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:04:41] But at least you can hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:43] I can hear it, I can definitely hear it. Some of my neighbors don’t love the fact that they can hear it, but I don’t mind. I should go and I will go. It’s expensive, but from what I hear, it’s worth it. I will get around to it, but I’m always a little embarrassed whenever this comes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:59] Very clutch parking spot in front of his house, if you’re an outside lens attendee. Not that I’m offering it to our listeners. Well we’re gonna take a quick break and when we come back we’re going to dig into all the stories that we have been following this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] Let’s go ahead and dive into some of the other stories that we have been following this month. Alan, I wanna start with you and you’ve been following the Pickett Fire in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:38] Yes, after a cold summer, a robust marine layer, Karl the Fog, out in full force, we are essentially in peak fire season from now until winter, basically, when it starts raining. And over the last week, we’ve had what has been the largest fire in the Bay Area so far, which is the Pickett fire. As of this taping, so Thursday morning, it has burned about 6,800 acres and is about 33% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:07] Yeah, and obviously whenever it comes to fire in the Bay Area, I think one of the main ways folks experience it is air quality, and I’ve been really watching that very closely. But can you tell us a little bit about where the fire is burning exactly? I know it’s pretty close to some big wineries in Napa, right, who are just about to approach harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:33] Yeah. So the fire broke out on the 21st of August along Pickett road in Napa County, just outside the town of Calistoga near several vineyards. So this fire is firmly, you know, in wine country, you know, In terms of smoke, the air quality management district did lift that advisory on Tuesday. So hopefully it’s not too bad anymore, but there’s still many areas where there are evacuation orders or evacuation warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] So has it burned down any residential areas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:03] So far, it doesn’t seem like that’s happened. Not all the damage has been assessed yet. It seems like the main damage that’s been done, apart from smoke that can be hazardous to people’s health, is to crops. As Ericka mentioned, it is harvest season for these wineries. One early estimate from the county ag commissioner says approximately 1,500 acres of crops have been affected either by fire, by heat, or by smoke. Totaling and estimated, and again this is preliminary, about $65 million in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] Oh, wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:38] And what that means in a practical sense is, are wine grapes going to get ruined by the fire? This happened in 2020. And so the question just is, could that happen again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:07:50] Do you know how the wine industry has been adapting to that, if at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:54] Winemakers say, you know, over the last decade or so, the industry is trying to push for more research to figure out how to reduce the taste of smoke and minimize the effects of wildfire because you know it’s hard to tell immediately if the smoke has ruined your grapes. You won’t really know until you taste it. And there actually isn’t a ton of research yet on how to at least mitigate that. So maybe you do have smoke in your area because fire is a reality in California, but maybe there’s ways to minimize the taste and save the crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:08:23] And I know it usually takes a while to figure out how a fire actually started, but do we know anything about how this fire in Napa began?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:33] So that is still under investigation. We don’t know for sure. But there have been some questions and details trickling out, and reporters asking whether this fire started as the result of a “escaped control burn”, basically a fire that’s intended to reduce vegetation on a property. The Press Democrat noted that those words, escape control, burn, appeared on a Cal Fire public safety dispatch around the same time the fire was reported. For what it’s worth, the winery in question said through a spokesperson, you know, we’re working with fire investigators. This is premature. So nothing has been confirmed officially yet, but there are some worries that this could have been how the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] Well, Alan, thank you so much for sharing that story with us. We’re going to be following that one in the weeks ahead, I’m sure. Moving on to the story that I have been following this month, Nastia, Alan, you’re both public transit writers in the Bay Area, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:09:39] Yes, I took BART here this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:42] I’m a regular N rider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:44] Nice and of course I’m a regular ferry rider and this might be of interest to all of us in this room. Some big changes have been happening to public transit in the Bay Area that is really all about making transit easier to ride. Not sure if you all have started using your debit or credit cards to ride BART but that is now a thing that you can do. And there’s also something called the Big Sync that is happening. Basically, all these transit systems in the Bay Area coordinating to make transfers a lot easier if you’re using one or more transit system. It’s about time. Right. I remember going to New York a couple of years ago and being able to ride the subway by just tapping my credit card. And as a tourist. I was amazed. I was mind blown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:10:43] Yeah, when they got rid of paper tickets and introduced clipper cards, I honestly always found it really problematic that if you lose your clipper card, you have to spend three dollars or something to get a new plastic card. And if you’re a low-income rider, you know that’s money you could be using for a meal. So I’m glad that they’re changing the way it’s done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Well, and it also brings BART closer to transit systems that already have this. You mentioned this already. New York has it. Chicago has it, many places overseas have it already. Sadly, for those of us who travel among multiple transit agencies, so let’s say you’re going BART to Muni like you do, it hasn’t come to Muni yet, right? You’ll still tap your credit card for BART and then use something else for Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:25] Yeah, fumble to find your other plastic card to ride Muni. Yes, that is correct. This open payment system, as it’s called, of using a debit card or a credit card has not rolled out for Muni yet, but that kind of is the goal. Bay Area Transit officials say that they do want to use this eventually for all regional operators, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit. So TBD for you, Alan. But I will say there is still something for Muni writers in the month of August, which is this big sink that I’m talking about. Have any of you heard of that? No, tell us more. So if you’re using more than one transit system, so you’re going from BART to Muni, all these agencies have tried to overhaul their schedules in order to make transfers a lot easier and a lot faster. So the focus is really for transfer hubs. In the Bay Area, so Dublin Pleasanton, BART, Daly City BART, Palo Alto Caltrain, and Concord BART Station. In all, these agencies adjusted 18 bus routes at these four hubs to improve connection times with each other. No more sprinting from Caltrain to BART for example. These agencies are saying that these changes account for a 33% increase in weekday ideal transfers. So basically you get five to 10 minutes in between one transit system to another to calmly start your morning and walk to your next transfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:13:08] That’s gonna make a big difference for a lot of people, because I talk to so many people that want to ride public transit more, but oftentimes it just takes so much longer than driving or getting a rideshare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:19] Right, exactly. You know, these agencies, these transportation agencies that have been really struggling since the pandemic, they got a lot of work to do to get people back on busses and trains, right? And this is really part of it. In terms of the why, this is part of an ongoing implementation of what’s known as the Bay Area Transformation Action Plan from 2021, which is all about improving public transit, making it more user-friendly. And creating a more connected system among all these different transit agencies around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:13:54] Love to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:13:55] See you on the N, or the 22…maybe I shouldn’t give out —\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:58] Yeah you’re right. We’re just getting closer and closer to figuring out where Alan Montecillo lives in this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:15] Well, that is the story that I have been following. Nastia, we’re gonna wrap this one up with you. What story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:14:24] I’ve been following the story of cultural boycotts. So in late July, a bunch of artists announced that they’re taking their music off Spotify because the CEO, Daniel Ek actually just became the chairman of an AI weapons company called Helsing. In light of Israel’s war in Gaza, a lot of artists have been thinking in past couple of years, how… Cultural institutions and companies that serve the culture sector can be complicit in war profiteering. Gabe Moline from KQED Arts wrote a great piece about how Dear Hoof, which is an indie band that formed in San Francisco and are pretty big, announced taking their music off Spotify. And another big voice in that has been Kadia Bonet, who’s this great singer-songwriter, also from the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:15:19] How much of a financial hit would artists take for deciding to pull their music off something like Spotify, which obviously is huge, you know, so many people use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:15:28] Well, just based off streams, honestly, negligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:15:32] Because they don’t get paid that much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:32] They do not. They do not get paid much at all. I’ve actually been covering artists’ fight for better pay on streaming services for a few years now. And Spotify doesn’t release its exact figures of how much it pays, but the general estimate going around in the industry is that they get a third of a cent per stream. So basically to make the equivalent of earning $15 an hour at a full time job, an artist would have to get over 650,000 Spotify streams per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:06] Oh my gosh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/strong> [00:16:06] So you have to be very popular to even see any amount of money. Most of the money in the music industry is in touring, but of course, Spotify does have a lot of clout. There’s a lot clout attached to being featured in a prominent playlist and having your music served up. To listeners, but despite that, there are a lot of artists that have been saying the way that Spotify is set up is rigged against the small indie artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] This is making me think about the story of the Bay Area DJs who protested boiler room for coming to San Francisco because of the company’s investments in the defense industry in Israel. Sort of the same kind of deal, and I feel like Bay Area artists really like putting their foot down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:16:53] Yeah, very similar. My good friend Olivia Cruz Mayeda covered that story for SF Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:59] Shout out Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:17:00] Yeah, shout out Olivia! Boiler Room, for those that don’t know, it’s this huge online platform for DJs and they basically go to all these really cool music scenes from around the world and produce these really high quality videos of DJs killing it at parties that really puts you in the scene. So in previous years, being in BoilerRoom for a DJ was a stamp of approval. So it was a really big deal that all these smaller electronic music collectives that I’m sure would want the clout that comes with Boiler Room put their foot down and they pretty much organized an anti-Boiler Room music festival as a sign of protest because Boiler Rooms parent company, KKR, has weapons investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:44] Has Spotify said anything about this? Are they noticing that there are some artists who are upset, whether it’s about their CEO specifically or payment in general?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:17:54] So Spotify has not issued a public statement about its CEO becoming chairman of the AI weapons company, but it does have a lot of information on its website kind of arguing that it does give artists all these opportunities and that artists wouldn’t be making a certain amount of money if it wasn’t for Spotify. So they do have a whole section of their website that’s all about payment structure that people can go look at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:20] From the consumer side, let’s say I really like one of these bands and I use Spotify and they’ve taken their music off, how should I listen to and support these artists?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:18:30] A lot of people recommend Bandcamp, not every artist has their music on there, but you can buy it directly and a big percentage goes to the artists. I know Apple Music introduced a new feature that easily allows you to transfer your Spotify playlists to Apple Music. People are talking about title. There are other streaming alternatives, but I will say I don’t think any of these artists would say that any of the services are perfect and all have their drawbacks. But I think if people want to support artists, especially the independent artists and their community, the best way is to buy tickets and show up to live shows and honestly buy merch, because merch is really the way that most artists make money these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:19:16] Well, Nastia Voynovskaya, Associate Editor of Arts and Culture, thank you so much for bringing that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nastia Voynovskaya \u003c/strong>[00:19:22] Thank you, Ericka and Alan for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:26] And Alan Montecillo, Senior Editor of The Bay, thank you as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The union representing editorial staffers at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-rosa\">Santa Rosa\u003c/a> Press Democrat voted Friday to waive their current contract in the newspaper’s sale to media conglomerate Hearst, clearing the last major hurdle in a deal that would take the paper back out of local ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By voting to approve the memorandum of understanding, union members agreed to waive their current contract — which would otherwise last through August 2026 — as soon as the sale is finalized, reporter Phil Barber said, adding that members were stuck between two less-than-ideal options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were put in a very difficult position by our current and future owners, and we wound up with a couple of very imperfect outcomes,” Barber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also stipulates that union members cannot file a legal injunction to block the deal with Hearst Corporation, which owns the San Francisco Chronicle and many other outlets across the country. Barber said the union was considering doing so in earlier negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the outcome of Friday’s vote was decisive, Barber described uncertainty and frustration among union members. Journalists also feel that the current ownership under Sonoma Media Investments did not sufficiently fight to ensure the union’s contract would be recognized under Hearst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Press Democrat’s former printing facility in Rohnert Park on April 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Union members were told by leadership at the Press Democrat that if they rejected the memorandum of understanding, Hearst would pull out of the deal, forcing the owners to consider other bids that would be less sympathetic to the union’s demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them was Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund that has earned a sour reputation among journalists for buying distressed newspapers and gutting their ranks. A group of Santa Rosa business leaders also put in an offer to buy the Press Democrat. That group includes the publisher of NorthBay biz, a magazine covering Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber said it’s unclear whether Hearst would have actually pulled out of the deal or whether it was simply a negotiation tactic to move the sale through with fewer roadblocks from the union.[aside postID=news_12035299 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/17306665486_9d1bff4693_k-1180x787.jpg']“We don’t know if it was a tangible threat, or if it was a bluff, or somewhere in between the two,” Barber said. “We were put in the position of being the adults in the room and making the logical decision that wasn’t going to blow up the Press Democrat and our other publications, and in the end, we may not have had much real choice but to sign this agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-five newsroom employees at the Press Democrat are represented by the Pacific Media Workers Guild, which also oversees units at the Chronicle. An acquisition by Hearst would include not just the Press Democrat but also other outlets under Sonoma Media Investments, such as the Petaluma Argus-Courier and Sonoma Index-Tribune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma Media Investments also made concessions as part of the memorandum of understanding, according to a guild representative, which includes a payout to all union members and a requirement that Hearst offer employment to everyone at their current salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Press Democrat has been under local ownership since 2012, when real estate developer Darius Anderson and several business partners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/79576/santa-rosa-press-democrat-sold\">purchased it from newspaper chain Halifax Media Group,\u003c/a> which had owned it for less than a year after buying it from the New York Times Company. The potential acquisition by Hearst, first reported by the San Francisco Standard in February, could be in the low eight figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Press Democrat’s former printing facility in Rohnert Park on April 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anderson and Hearst did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber said it’s not the first time the union has made sacrifices for the sake of a smooth transfer of ownership. When Sonoma Media Investments initially purchased the Press Democrat, union members took wage cuts and gave up their pensions to secure a new local owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Barber said it’s “disappointing” that the owners did not fight harder to secure protections for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union members are concerned that ownership by a large media conglomerate would alienate community members in the North Bay, who they say trust the Press Democrat in large part because of its historic local ownership.[aside postID=news_12034860 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS16535_IMG_0443.JPG-1020x680.jpg']“Our community has felt that their needs were really being looked after because we had local ownership,” Barber said. “We’re all sacrificing something as we lose local ownership. It’s also sort of the reality of today’s newspaper world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearst also recently acquired the Austin American-Statesman in Texas, where part of the deal included not recognizing the union’s existing contract. Barber said journalists at the Press Democrat were in conversation with reporters in Austin to learn more about what may be in store for them under Hearst ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union members at the American-Statesman are currently in contract negotiations with Hearst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the corporation does not have to recognize the Press Democrat’s current contract, it will still be obligated to recognize the union itself. Barber said the union hopes Hearst will bargain in good faith when it comes to negotiating a new contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the end, our members voted to make yet another sacrifice in order to preserve strong, local journalism in our community,” the union said in a statement. “We look forward to working with Hearst to negotiate a fair contract that provides our local journalists with the wages and working conditions we need to continue our excellent work and to serve our readers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also stipulates that union members cannot file a legal injunction to block the deal with Hearst Corporation, which owns the San Francisco Chronicle and many other outlets across the country. Barber said the union was considering doing so in earlier negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the outcome of Friday’s vote was decisive, Barber described uncertainty and frustration among union members. Journalists also feel that the current ownership under Sonoma Media Investments did not sufficiently fight to ensure the union’s contract would be recognized under Hearst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Press Democrat’s former printing facility in Rohnert Park on April 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Union members were told by leadership at the Press Democrat that if they rejected the memorandum of understanding, Hearst would pull out of the deal, forcing the owners to consider other bids that would be less sympathetic to the union’s demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them was Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund that has earned a sour reputation among journalists for buying distressed newspapers and gutting their ranks. A group of Santa Rosa business leaders also put in an offer to buy the Press Democrat. That group includes the publisher of NorthBay biz, a magazine covering Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber said it’s unclear whether Hearst would have actually pulled out of the deal or whether it was simply a negotiation tactic to move the sale through with fewer roadblocks from the union.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We don’t know if it was a tangible threat, or if it was a bluff, or somewhere in between the two,” Barber said. “We were put in the position of being the adults in the room and making the logical decision that wasn’t going to blow up the Press Democrat and our other publications, and in the end, we may not have had much real choice but to sign this agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-five newsroom employees at the Press Democrat are represented by the Pacific Media Workers Guild, which also oversees units at the Chronicle. An acquisition by Hearst would include not just the Press Democrat but also other outlets under Sonoma Media Investments, such as the Petaluma Argus-Courier and Sonoma Index-Tribune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma Media Investments also made concessions as part of the memorandum of understanding, according to a guild representative, which includes a payout to all union members and a requirement that Hearst offer employment to everyone at their current salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Press Democrat has been under local ownership since 2012, when real estate developer Darius Anderson and several business partners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/79576/santa-rosa-press-democrat-sold\">purchased it from newspaper chain Halifax Media Group,\u003c/a> which had owned it for less than a year after buying it from the New York Times Company. The potential acquisition by Hearst, first reported by the San Francisco Standard in February, could be in the low eight figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240411_PRESSDEMOCRATFILE_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Press Democrat’s former printing facility in Rohnert Park on April 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anderson and Hearst did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber said it’s not the first time the union has made sacrifices for the sake of a smooth transfer of ownership. When Sonoma Media Investments initially purchased the Press Democrat, union members took wage cuts and gave up their pensions to secure a new local owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Barber said it’s “disappointing” that the owners did not fight harder to secure protections for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union members are concerned that ownership by a large media conglomerate would alienate community members in the North Bay, who they say trust the Press Democrat in large part because of its historic local ownership.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/napa-county\">Napa County\u003c/a>’s six-year legal battle with a family-run winery is far from over — even after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020585/napa-countys-legal-battle-with-family-run-winery-sparks-a-federal-court-challenge\">Hoopes Vineyard\u003c/a> was ordered to close its doors for tastings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Napa County Superior Court ordered Hoopes Vineyard to suspend on-site wine and food service and some additional operations that had been at the center of a dispute over Hoopes’ small winery exemption. According to owner Lindsay Hoopes, the winery will be able to remain open for now, after the state’s 1st District Court of Appeal granted a temporary pause Friday on the trial court’s order while it determines whether that will cause “irreparable harm” to the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoopes is appealing the preliminary injunction that she says would force its closure, alleging that the county acted outside its jurisdiction by suspending functions that she believes fall under the state’s purview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our perspective, it’s an excess of the trial court’s jurisdiction in telling us that we can’t any longer do those activities,” like wine marketing and tastings, Hoopes says. “They’re taking away rights that the [Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control] already gave, and a trial court can’t do that in the state. Only the ABC [department] and the Supreme Court can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoopes has been fighting with Napa over the legality of Hoopes Vineyard since at least 2020, when she first received a notice from the county over an apparent violation of the small winery exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/NapaCountyWineCountryGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giant welcome sign is seen in Napa Valley, California, on Oct. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her property is zoned under that old county policy, which allows small wineries to continue to operate without going through an expensive, arduous permitting process that applies to land in Napa’s highly protected agricultural preserve. But it comes with restrictions: small wineries under the exemption can’t hold public tours, events or provide wine tastings, according to the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa County sued Hoopes and her winery in 2022, alleging that changes to the property’s use in recent years violated its limitations. Since 2017, Hoopes purchased the property, created “\u003ca href=\"https://www.hoopesvineyard.com/oasis-by-hoopes\">Oasis by Hoopes\u003c/a>,” which introduced wine-tasting “experiences,” and invited guests to visit an on-site animal sanctuary and lounge at two Airstream trailers brought onto the site. She also applied for, and was granted, an Alcoholic Beverage Control winery license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county says that the small winery exemption program was designed so that low-impact vineyards could continue operating small farms, grow grapes, and produce and sell wine in a retail fashion without having to jump through the same hoops as larger, commercial operations. But if those properties made changes that could have environmental consequences, like allowing more guests and expanding the footprint, it would require a use permit, says attorney Arthur Hartinger, who is representing Napa in the case.[aside postID=news_12025404 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-1020x680.jpg']“They just can’t do these other kinds of things that bring more people onto the property and create impacts that have very serious potential consequences,” he told KQED in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa County Judge Mark Boessenecker agreed in November, saying that Hoopes gained an unfair advantage by expanding its business without a use permit. “Hoopes does not have to spend the money to upgrade its systems and comply with the law, while other, law-abiding wineries do,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the court’s decision isn’t final since Hoopes’ cross-complaint is still pending, last month’s preliminary injunction would have forced the winery to shut down some operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That “would functionally prohibit us from making wine and selling wine in any capacity,” Hoopes told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoopes appealed the injunction on Feb. 21, and last week, she asked the appellate court to pause the injunction while that appeal decision is pending. According to a filing on behalf of the winery, the injunction would force it to recall its products from the market, prevent anyone outside of the business’ employees from drinking its wines, require changing its label and branding, and cancel customer reservations and distributor meetings. It also says Hoopes would have to stop making wine altogether since the winemaker is an independent contractor who can no longer drink Hoopes’ wine — “an integral part” of the process, according to the writ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030695\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Napa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Napa.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Napa-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Napa-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Napa-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Napa-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Napa-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clusters of Pinot Noir grapes ready to be picked in Napa, California, on Aug. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s written so broadly that, like, our label would have been a violation of the court order,” Hoopes says. The winery’s label features the gold silhouette of a dog jumping through a hoop, and the injunction precludes the winery from using animals, like those in its on-site sanctuary, as “an attraction, enticement, or marketing activity” related to the winery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa County spokesperson Linda Weinreich said the injunction addresses activities on Hoopes’ property that the trial court determined violated Napa County code and state law and that the winery is seeking to “continue to violate the law” until the case is finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is about ensuring compliance with the same regulations that apply to all wineries in Napa County — regulations that protect the integrity of the Agricultural Preserve and maintain a level playing field for the industry,” Weinreich said via email. “The County remains committed to upholding these policies in accordance with the Court’s final ruling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoopes also says that the injunction makes a larger error because her winery’s sales operations fall under the jurisdiction of the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which issued her a winery license in 2019. In 2021, Hoopes applied to expand the ABC-licensed premise to include an outdoor consumption area and got approval that indicated it was “not in conflict with the local zoning ordinances,” according to the court filing asking for the pause on the preliminary injunction.[aside postID=news_12029675 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/NimanRanchGetty-1020x680.jpg']“Because those permits have been issued, ABC has sole authority to regulate the scope of permissions,” it reads. “A trial court does not have jurisdiction to review the decisions of the ABC. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney emphasized the damage that tariffs and reduced exports could have on not only wineries but industries across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These actions are going to impact not just our wine and our wine industry and wine community, but consumers, hospitality workers, farmers and our communities as well,” Haney said. “There’s a great concern about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an already challenging economic environment, Sonoma County Vintners has been bracing for these consequences for months, Haney said, and they certainly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016592/california-winemakers-brace-for-potential-tariffs\">haven’t been alone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canada is one of the Sonoma and Napa wine region’s biggest export partners, according to Haney. Since Sonoma County vineyards are 85% family-owned, he said, the impact that a trade dispute could have on small businesses and families is devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>British Columbia’s Premier David Eby also announced this weekend that the province’s liquor distribution branch will stop purchasing alcohol from U.S. states led by Republican governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Tariffs go way beyond political bounds. They’re going to affect Democrats. They’re going to affect Republicans,” Haney said in response. “They’re going to affect Democratic farmers and Republican farmers and Democratic winemakers and Republican winemakers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said he’s hoping for a permanent agreement that will keep California wines on Canada’s shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s take politics out of it,” he said. “We have to remember and keep our consumers, our trade, our communities all in front of our minds here because those are the ones that are going to feel this the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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In November, Judge Mark Boessenecker agreed with the county, issuing a decision that Napa’s county code “precludes ‘small winery’ public tours and all tastings, by definition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is now seeking an injunction to allow it to enforce the judge’s ruling and requesting more than $8 million from Hoopes in penalties and reimbursement of legal fees — a bill that would effectively shut down the vineyard, founder Spencer Hoopes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/hoopes-vineyard-napa-penalty-20018873.php\">told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While tastings and other experiences are common at any number of the wineries lining Highway 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838178/the-birth-of-wine-country-is-a-story-of-bugs-taxes-and-war\">up and down the Napa Valley\u003c/a>, Spencer Hoopes began planting grapes in front of his home nestled between Napa and Yountville in 1983 and originally made his living selling to other vintners. In the ’90s, though, he decided to create wine under his own name after gaining a reputation for his cabernet sauvignon, according to Hoopes Vineyard’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His daughter Lindsay took over the winery in 2012, and more than a decade later, it has expanded in its locations and offerings. Originally selling just one bottle of wine on-site, Hoopes now also hosts “experiences” and “timed table visits,” invites guests to an on-site animal sanctuary and features two Airstreams for lounging and drinking at a property bought in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county contends that Hoopes’ introduction of what are functionally tastings and tours requires a use permit and said in its lawsuit that the winery failed to seek one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous owners of the vineyard land had purchased a Small Winery Certificate of Exemption in 1984. The short-lived county program, which issued exemptions from 1982 to 1986, still allows certificate holders to make wine on their land without going through an arduous, and expensive, permitting process. Napa’s county code requires larger wineries to apply for use permits in order to host tastings, weddings, tours and other non-agriculture-related activities on land in Napa’s extensive — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101870749/forum-on-the-road-land-use-battles-continue-as-napa-county-passes-controversial-tree-water-ordinance\">highly protected\u003c/a> — agricultural preserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11838178 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/GettyImages-143709552-e1517698014347.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Arthur Hartinger, who is representing the county in its lawsuit against Hoopes, the program was designed so that low-impact vineyards could “continue to have a small family farm, grow grapes, produce wine, and sell it in a retail fashion” despite the land’s preservation requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just can’t do these other kinds of things that bring more people onto the property and create impacts that have very serious potential consequences,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bringing more people onto the property or expanding its footprint would require a use permit because it could have environmental consequences for the preserve land, such as wastewater impacts, increased water use or traffic in the surrounding area, Hartinger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hoopes’ exemption allows for two employees and no visitors on-site daily, Lindsay Hoopes testified that the winery welcomes around 60 guests to the grounds per day, along with a number of employees. To qualify for a use permit, it would need to make updates to its wastewater, freshwater and fire protection systems, along with its road and parking. According to the county’s complaint, this could cost the winery between $500,000 and $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoopes, meanwhile, has joined with two other small wineries to allege in a federal lawsuit that some of Napa County’s applicable ordinances are unconstitutionally vague and that the county’s interpretation of these ordinances has changed over the years unfairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have an email [from the county] that says ‘visitor’ means a liquor store owner, but then, two years ago when they sued Hoopes, [the county] said ‘No, visitor means a customer,’” said Joseph Infante, a lawyer representing the wineries in the federal case. “That’s two different things, and so that violates your constitutional right to engage in your business without arbitrary governmental interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit follows a similar one in Michigan, in which a federal court found that local municipalities’ vague ordinances were out of line with state law. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Napa County, 3 out of the 5 seats on the Board of Supervisors are on the ballot, in nonpartisan races that will be decided in the March 5 primary. (In these races, nobody is advancing to November— voters will pick the winner in this election!)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wine industry looms large, but so do issues about housing, wildfire protection, and environmental conservation. KQED’s Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli tells us about the stakes, and focuses on the race in District 5.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9204213170&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KQED Voter Guide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan \u003c/strong>Hey, this is Alan Montecillo. Just reminding you that tomorrow is the last day to vote in the March primary. If you still need to read up on the issues and candidates, KQED has a handy voter guide. You can find it at KQED.org/VoterGuide tomorrow night as results come in, you can check out KQED.org/Election and we’ll also share a few episodes about some of the different races in today’s show notes. Happy voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Napa County voters could change the direction of their local government in a big way. Three of the five seats on the Board of Supervisors are up in a nonpartisan race that will be decided in the primary tomorrow. Now, of course, Napa is world famous for its wine industry, but voters are also worried about the same issues as everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Things like housing, wildfires, inequality. Napa is in danger of becoming mostly a playground for the wealthy. We need a durable funding source to fund wildfire mitigation efforts and strike a balance between the economic growth that the wine industry provides and the human aspect of the labor force that we need to make that work. Today, the race for Board of Supervisors in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Napa County is, population wise, the smallest county in the Bay area. It doesn’t even make it to a million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí is a community engagement reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>However, size wise, it’s huge. You could fit several San Francisco’s inside of there. And just because there’s a, you know, a lot of people doesn’t mean that things don’t get heated. The wine industry is definitely a huge factor, a huge contributor to investment, to employment and everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>But you also have a lot, a lot of folks who, you know, work in other things, have been living there their whole lives and, you know, kind of have to live with this industry that brings millions of people a year and they have to share resources. This balancing game between the needs of the wine industry and the needs of residents is one of the many reasons it makes politics in Napa really, really interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So there’s an election coming. The last day to vote is tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yes. What is it going to be decided in Napa County this week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I would say that for locals, this is a big year in Napa. There’s five people sitting on the board of supervisors of the county. These five people get to decide and supervise the budget. The county prison, the county airport, regulating wineries, wildfire protection plans. And three of those seats on the board, with three out of five majority, will be decided on Tuesday. You know, in other parts of the state, the results of Tuesday are like they’re a primary, right? Like it’s kind of like we’re getting ready for what’s going to happen in November. Napa. It’s what happens on Tuesday. Who wins on Tuesday? That’s it. This is final results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Let’s dive more into the big issues in Napa County politics. I have to imagine there’s some overlap with the rest of the bay, like housing. But what else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>In Napa County? We’re trying to figure out housing, how? We’re trying to figure out how to boost the supply of housing. We’re also figuring out wildfire protection, how to make it financially sustainable for the future as climate change gets more and more intense. We’re also dealing with issues of transportation, especially in the southern part of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>A lot of folks, you know, they got to go to Vallejo, they got to go to Solano, Contra Costa County and to work. And getting in and out of Napa is pretty tough during the week. Cost of living. Also investment in the sense of like, you know, you have a county that depends on tourism, on people traveling. They’re still catching up. They’re still recovering from the pandemic when it was so hard to make it out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And what about the wine industry? What are the ways that it comes up in local politics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>So over the years, if you if you look at candidates pages, who supports them? Who endorses them? The Napa Wine Growers Association, the Farm Bureau, there will always be a candidate that has their endorsement. They always have something to say. This is an industry that represents millions and millions of dollars. And of course, they want to support a candidate that you know is going to make things a lot easier for them, right? Whether that’s the new vineyard in the works, the it has to go to the Board of Supervisors. And having folks on the Board of Supervisors friendly to the wine industry makes things a lot easier, and they’re very keen on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>All right, Carlos, so there are three races for the Napa County Board of Supervisors that could reshape big issues like how the wine industry is regulated. And really, this question of what should be done with land in the county. One race where we’re seeing this is in district five, which I know that you followed closely. Tell me a little bit more about district five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>So I’d say the district five challenges a lot of the preconceptions we have about Napa County. Majority of Napa County is white. The biggest city in district five is American Canyon. American Canyon is actually really, really diverse. It’s overwhelmingly Latino. It’s overwhelmingly Asian, very middle class, very family. A lot of folks work in Vallejo. Work at Six Flags have been there for a while and been able to, like, make a life in the southern part of Napa. You don’t see that many folks going to work in a vineyard or a winery. Economy is a little more varied here, which makes, I think, more integrated with the rest of the bay as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Let’s talk about the candidates for district five, starting with the incumbent, Belia Ramos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>So there are two candidates in the race and it’s rematch. They’ve actually faced off in 2020. Bailey Ramos who’s currently supervisor won in 2020. And now she’s going against Mariam Aboudamous again, who is a city council member for American Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>I’m as homegrown as it gets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Ramos definitely emphasizes that she’s born and raised like Napa, like how how rooted she is in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>I was born at Queen of the Valley Hospital, and I moved over to unincorporated Napa County outside of Saint Helena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Folks, take that pride in that small town connection, right? And she definitely emphasizes that she’s representing the interests of, like, middle class Napa residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>This calling for me, it’s about improving people’s lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Part of her story is that she’s a single mom. You know, she had to raise, kids by herself for a moment. She also dealt with housing insecurity. Not even that there is enough affordable housing in Napa. Just that there’s not enough housing in Napa, period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>How does Supervisor Ramos brand herself, like, when she is talking about what kind of leader she is and wants to be? What does she talk about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>She has been chair of the board. She’s very, very involved. She knows how the county works really, really well because she’s been on the board since 2016. She’s been involved in a lot of the recovery efforts from wildfire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>We were brought to our meetings with fires in 2017, the first Mega Fire Tahoe. So when you ask me, what am I most proud of? I’m proud of the investments we’ve made to make our community more resilient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>She’s very well connected with Congressman Mike Thompson’s office, with labor groups throughout the county. And she’s also she’s involved with the Association of Bay Area Governments, a bag so, you know, well connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>As you said, this is a rematch. Let’s talk about the challenger, Mariam Aboudamous. Who is she? And why is she running again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Mariam Aboudamous is currently a city council member for American Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mariam Aboudamous: \u003c/strong>I actually looked up at the county almost my entire life, and when I was just one year old, we moved to Brownes Valley Nampa. And then when I was to come from this valley to American Canyon. And I’ve lived there ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>She’s been in city council for several years now, and what got her into politics, public service was one of the issues that we’ve been talking about. Traffic congestion, mobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mariam Aboudamous: \u003c/strong>I was driving home from my office, and it was literally less than two miles on a drive, but it took me 45 minutes to get home. And I said, this is ridiculous. I should be in San Francisco by now. 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There’s always something, whether it’s an expansion of an existing vineyard or a new vineyard. It’s just the wine industry is always going to have certain needs, and they need to go to the board and whoever sits on the board, even by just one seat, just change it by one seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>It has huge implications on future decisions, on how future vineyards are going to be decided, on how future like permits are going to be, deciding on, hey, whether this plot of land should we make it into housing, or should we make it into a one another vineyard, a new vineyard? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan \u003c/strong>Hey, this is Alan Montecillo. Just reminding you that tomorrow is the last day to vote in the March primary. If you still need to read up on the issues and candidates, KQED has a handy voter guide. You can find it at KQED.org/VoterGuide tomorrow night as results come in, you can check out KQED.org/Election and we’ll also share a few episodes about some of the different races in today’s show notes. Happy voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Napa County voters could change the direction of their local government in a big way. Three of the five seats on the Board of Supervisors are up in a nonpartisan race that will be decided in the primary tomorrow. Now, of course, Napa is world famous for its wine industry, but voters are also worried about the same issues as everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Things like housing, wildfires, inequality. Napa is in danger of becoming mostly a playground for the wealthy. We need a durable funding source to fund wildfire mitigation efforts and strike a balance between the economic growth that the wine industry provides and the human aspect of the labor force that we need to make that work. Today, the race for Board of Supervisors in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Napa County is, population wise, the smallest county in the Bay area. It doesn’t even make it to a million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí is a community engagement reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>However, size wise, it’s huge. You could fit several San Francisco’s inside of there. And just because there’s a, you know, a lot of people doesn’t mean that things don’t get heated. The wine industry is definitely a huge factor, a huge contributor to investment, to employment and everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>But you also have a lot, a lot of folks who, you know, work in other things, have been living there their whole lives and, you know, kind of have to live with this industry that brings millions of people a year and they have to share resources. This balancing game between the needs of the wine industry and the needs of residents is one of the many reasons it makes politics in Napa really, really interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So there’s an election coming. The last day to vote is tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yes. What is it going to be decided in Napa County this week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I would say that for locals, this is a big year in Napa. There’s five people sitting on the board of supervisors of the county. These five people get to decide and supervise the budget. The county prison, the county airport, regulating wineries, wildfire protection plans. And three of those seats on the board, with three out of five majority, will be decided on Tuesday. You know, in other parts of the state, the results of Tuesday are like they’re a primary, right? Like it’s kind of like we’re getting ready for what’s going to happen in November. Napa. It’s what happens on Tuesday. Who wins on Tuesday? That’s it. This is final results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Let’s dive more into the big issues in Napa County politics. I have to imagine there’s some overlap with the rest of the bay, like housing. But what else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>In Napa County? We’re trying to figure out housing, how? We’re trying to figure out how to boost the supply of housing. We’re also figuring out wildfire protection, how to make it financially sustainable for the future as climate change gets more and more intense. We’re also dealing with issues of transportation, especially in the southern part of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>A lot of folks, you know, they got to go to Vallejo, they got to go to Solano, Contra Costa County and to work. And getting in and out of Napa is pretty tough during the week. Cost of living. Also investment in the sense of like, you know, you have a county that depends on tourism, on people traveling. They’re still catching up. They’re still recovering from the pandemic when it was so hard to make it out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And what about the wine industry? What are the ways that it comes up in local politics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>So over the years, if you if you look at candidates pages, who supports them? Who endorses them? The Napa Wine Growers Association, the Farm Bureau, there will always be a candidate that has their endorsement. They always have something to say. This is an industry that represents millions and millions of dollars. And of course, they want to support a candidate that you know is going to make things a lot easier for them, right? Whether that’s the new vineyard in the works, the it has to go to the Board of Supervisors. And having folks on the Board of Supervisors friendly to the wine industry makes things a lot easier, and they’re very keen on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>All right, Carlos, so there are three races for the Napa County Board of Supervisors that could reshape big issues like how the wine industry is regulated. And really, this question of what should be done with land in the county. One race where we’re seeing this is in district five, which I know that you followed closely. Tell me a little bit more about district five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>So I’d say the district five challenges a lot of the preconceptions we have about Napa County. Majority of Napa County is white. The biggest city in district five is American Canyon. American Canyon is actually really, really diverse. It’s overwhelmingly Latino. It’s overwhelmingly Asian, very middle class, very family. A lot of folks work in Vallejo. Work at Six Flags have been there for a while and been able to, like, make a life in the southern part of Napa. You don’t see that many folks going to work in a vineyard or a winery. Economy is a little more varied here, which makes, I think, more integrated with the rest of the bay as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Let’s talk about the candidates for district five, starting with the incumbent, Belia Ramos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>So there are two candidates in the race and it’s rematch. They’ve actually faced off in 2020. Bailey Ramos who’s currently supervisor won in 2020. And now she’s going against Mariam Aboudamous again, who is a city council member for American Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>I’m as homegrown as it gets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Ramos definitely emphasizes that she’s born and raised like Napa, like how how rooted she is in Napa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>I was born at Queen of the Valley Hospital, and I moved over to unincorporated Napa County outside of Saint Helena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Folks, take that pride in that small town connection, right? And she definitely emphasizes that she’s representing the interests of, like, middle class Napa residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>This calling for me, it’s about improving people’s lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Part of her story is that she’s a single mom. You know, she had to raise, kids by herself for a moment. She also dealt with housing insecurity. Not even that there is enough affordable housing in Napa. Just that there’s not enough housing in Napa, period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>How does Supervisor Ramos brand herself, like, when she is talking about what kind of leader she is and wants to be? What does she talk about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>She has been chair of the board. She’s very, very involved. She knows how the county works really, really well because she’s been on the board since 2016. She’s been involved in a lot of the recovery efforts from wildfire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>We were brought to our meetings with fires in 2017, the first Mega Fire Tahoe. So when you ask me, what am I most proud of? I’m proud of the investments we’ve made to make our community more resilient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>She’s very well connected with Congressman Mike Thompson’s office, with labor groups throughout the county. And she’s also she’s involved with the Association of Bay Area Governments, a bag so, you know, well connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>As you said, this is a rematch. Let’s talk about the challenger, Mariam Aboudamous. Who is she? And why is she running again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Mariam Aboudamous is currently a city council member for American Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mariam Aboudamous: \u003c/strong>I actually looked up at the county almost my entire life, and when I was just one year old, we moved to Brownes Valley Nampa. And then when I was to come from this valley to American Canyon. And I’ve lived there ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>She’s been in city council for several years now, and what got her into politics, public service was one of the issues that we’ve been talking about. Traffic congestion, mobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mariam Aboudamous: \u003c/strong>I was driving home from my office, and it was literally less than two miles on a drive, but it took me 45 minutes to get home. And I said, this is ridiculous. I should be in San Francisco by now. What’s our city Council doing about traffic? And that’s actually when I ran in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>I was critical in something that I think was really, really cool that a city like American Canyon passed in a pandemic. So the city had actually decided to require, grocery stores to provide hazard pay to its workers during the 2020 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mariam Aboudamous: \u003c/strong>Way that I like to do things is I like to talk to both sides and reach a happy medium in the middle where both parties can agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And who is supporting her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>So she’ll tell you that she has support from all over Napa County, from every industry. I will point out that the first people also came out to support her. Are all groups related to agriculture? The Napa County Farm Bureau, winegrowers of Napa County, the Napa Chamber of Commerce. So groups associated with these, multimillion dollar businesses and industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up, where these two candidates stand on the big issues facing Napa County. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So two candidates, both with public service experience. How different are these two candidates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>You know, Alan, on a lot of stuff, they do see eye to eye. You know, they both want more housing for now, but they both won a sustainable solution to finance wildfire protection. But I would just say that there’s different ways that they they want to go about it. The big difference is, is when you ask them how we should regulate the wine industry. Take the example of the local nine vineyard. A group of winegrowers came together to open up a new vineyard called Lake Colleen in the north part of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>And it required turning dozens of acres, which were zoned previously for, you know, as like this natural space into a vineyard space. An environmental group actually appeals the process. And it’s like, hey, actually, this vineyard is going to have really bad impacts on the local ecology, on the water, on lake various on your buy. And it had to go to the Board of Supervisors when the time came for a vote. Supervisor Ramos was the tiebreaker vote. Ramos voted to essentially stop the project. Well Aboudamous, she would have acted very differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mariam Aboudamous: \u003c/strong>Lately, the board has shifted in a way that, you know is not favorable to the industry that’s made the Napa Valley what it is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>You know, for her, folks are making an investment in Napa. The county should make it easier for those investments to come through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So these two candidates for district five appear aligned on many issues. But there are also a few sticking points, including regulation of the wine industry. What would it mean for Ramos to keep this seat or for Aboudamous to defeat her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>The thing is that, the Lake William project is not the only project in the works. Wine country is a multibillion dollar industry. There’s always something, whether it’s an expansion of an existing vineyard or a new vineyard. It’s just the wine industry is always going to have certain needs, and they need to go to the board and whoever sits on the board, even by just one seat, just change it by one seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>It has huge implications on future decisions, on how future vineyards are going to be decided, on how future like permits are going to be, deciding on, hey, whether this plot of land should we make it into housing, or should we make it into a one another vineyard, a new vineyard? Ramos I mean, she’s you know, when I asked her, I mean, I think she just wants there to be a better working relationship between county officials and and the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Belia Ramos: \u003c/strong>It really goes back to integrity, a core value of the county of Napa, that this is going to require us to engage with our industry partners, at really looking at what, what the concerns are. And, and also listening to our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Carlos, when it comes to news coverage of the Bay area, the big cities and counties, you know, San Francisco, Oakland, they get the most attention. And they’re also, I think, sometimes held up as bellwethers for the whole region. We’ve been talking about Napa County, much less populous, but also world famous. Do you think these results will say something about where our broader region is headed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think so, because, for example, San Francisco or San Jose cities where they’re like, hey, we have a booming industry, the tech industry, that industry has needs, but we also have longtime residents being like, hey, what about us? That’s the same in Napa. You have a booming industry that folks take a lot of pride in, but also the needs of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>We’ve seen a shift in the past few years where the county is sitting down and strategizing on how to make the county a place, not just for wine. Wine has brought in a lot of money, millions of dollars. But if you see what the decisions and a lot of the things that the Board of Supervisors has been taking up on ADUs, accessory dwelling units, granny homes, thinking more critically about public transportation and how to make it more widely accessible child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>These are all things that you’re like, whoa! Like if you look at the Board of Supervisors 20 years ago, these things weren’t coming up. And now the reality, I mean, that that the cost of living is just too high. It’s gotten to a point where the Board of Supervisors cannot ignore it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yeah. And how do you balance all of those things? How do you balance the needs and wants of industry versus the cost of living versus the land? I mean, that’s that’s that’s everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>It’s in it’s it’s in its DNA agriculture. But it’s gotten to a point where like tough decisions need to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I guess we’ll see what happens in this race and many, many others this week in this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Carlos. Thank you. Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli, community engagement reporter for KQED. This episode was cut down and edited by Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Maria Esquinca scored and added all the tape. Our intern is Ellie Prickett-Morgan. Thanks to KQED’s forum for the calls you heard at the top of the show. Music courtesy of Audio Network. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED public radio in San Francisco. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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After Joe Biden was elected president in 2020, Rogers and Copeland discussed attacking Democrats in a series of text messages. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight\">They targeted the party headquarters in Sacramento\u003c/a>, just blocks from the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court records, the following exchange occurred after Rogers sent Copeland a link to the building’s location:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: sent link to the address of the California Democratic Party office…\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: Right next to CHP\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: gotta be cautious\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Only takes 3 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Take a brick break a window pour gas in and light\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The pair settled on Jan. 20, 2021, the date of Biden’s inauguration, but they didn’t get to launch their plan: The Napa County Sheriff’s Office raided Rogers’ business and home on Jan. 15, 2021. 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